Photography

Depression: How it affect people in the everyday life.

How does depression affect people? How does it affect a relationships? a marriage? Life as a family.

This is I realized a very taboo subject. People who have depression feel ashamed and therefore it is not received well in the social world. The more we talk about it, the more people will get help.

Hopefully this documentary will help men realized it is OK to get help.

I also hope people will understand that it is not just one person affected, but the spouse also. Suddenly your husband become another child that you need to take care of. There is so much pressure on the spouse that people can not even fathom.

I was very grateful to have found a family in Raleigh that was willing to share their life with me, and share how depression affects their everyday life.

Ryan is 30 years old and he lives with his wife Renee 29 years old and son Aiden just turned one.

They have been married for 3 years. Ryan has been diagnosed with depression.

Renee and Ryan are so lucky to have an incredible support in their family. Ryan’s parents have come to visit often to help Renee. Renee’s parents have flown back and fourth to help also. How great to be able to talk about this issues and to have parents caring enough to get in the middle of this crisis.

Not eating appropriately, not sleeping enough, not exercising, seems to have triggered the depression to be back.

He is on new medicine and right now it is pretty imbalanced.

These photos will be taken over 4 weeks course of their lives. I will continue another 4 weeks.